Menkis, Richard
Dr. Menkis is an Associate Professor at the University of British Colombia within the Department of History. He is interested in the topics of migration, transnationalism, nationalism, race and religion.
With a regional focus on Canada and Europe, he broadly studies: modern Jewish history, memory and response to the Holocaust. He was the 2018 recipient of the Louis Rosenberg Distinguished Service Award, Awarded by Association for Canadian Jewish Studies.
Listing Details
| Institution: | University of British Columbia |
| Fields of Expertise: | Borders Commemoration and Memorialization Ethnicity, Racism, and Xenophobia Holocaust Studies Memory Politics Migration |
| Research groups: | Memory Politics |
| Email: | menkis@mail.ubc.ca |
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| Languages: | English |
| Publications: | P. Anctil and R. Menkis, eds. In a “Land of Hope”: Documents on the Canadian Jewish Experience, 1627-1923. Toronto: Champlain Society/University of Toronto Press, 2023. R. Menkis and H. Troper, “Canadian Jewry since the Second World War,” in R. Brym and R. Schnoor, eds, The Ever-Dying People? Canada’s Jews in Comparative Perspective. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2023, pp. 13-28. R. Menkis, s.v. “[Reception of Bible in] North America. Judaism. Canada, ” Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception. Vol. 21. Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2023, pp. 804-812. R. Menkis, “Foreword,” in Irving Abella and Harold Troper, None is Too Many: Canada and the Jews of Europe, 1933-1948. Toronto: New Jewish Press, an imprint of University of Toronto Press, 2023, pp. ix-xii. (also in audio format, read by author) R. Menkis, “In from the Margins? Museums and Narratives of the Canadian Jewish Experience,” in D.S. Koffman, ed. In No Better Home? Jews, Canada and the sense of BelongingToronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021, pp. 177-187. |
